Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-14
Minor HaDs,

The Canadian governments organ in
Montreal asserts that the fisheries com
mission will not be limited to the ques-
ton of fishing rights, but will be author
lied to consider the question of reel
procity and general commercial rela-
tons with the United States.
f. Z. Davenport, Boston metal deal
er, fails for 100000
An attachment has been placed on the
property of the Woonsocket Rubber
Company, of Providence, r. l., for $500
in twenty days.
The noted Patrick abduction case has
been decided at Davenport, Ia, the
court taking the 5-year-old girl from the
care OF the aunt and giving her to her
father.
The Treasury Department has been
notified that troops from Denmark, Swe-
den. Norway and Belgium will take part
in the Chicago military drill.
Twelve hundred sheep were drowned
on Careless Creek, NJ. T., by cloud
burst.
Eight fishing vessels have been lost
off the coast OF Labrador in a storm.
1t has been decided to locate the new
Catholic University at Washington, D.
G. 1t will cost SIS, 900, 900.
The deaf mutes of the state of Iowa
are holding convention at Des Moines
for the purpose of organizing society.
The Department of Interior will send
a special agent to Duluth to investigate
the entry of certain Minnesota swamp
lands.
Smith & Wicks, tin-can manufacture
ers, failed at Baltimore, Md, for $780,
600.
The Charles Stewart Paper Company,
of Cincinnati, fails for 100000; assets,
5000.
Texas fever appears at Danville, III.
A colored peoples world fair will be
held at Atlanta, Ga, in 1888.
The state department at Washington
is advised that Signor Cuenca Crues. of
Venezuela, has entered into a contract
with his government to lay Geographic
cable between that country and the
United States
The buildings of the tri-state fair, at
Toledo, were damaged on the 9Th by
tornado.
A collision occurred on the Reading
Railway, at Williamsport, Pa, and
number Of cars were wrecked, and
Michael Ross, brakeman, was killed.
b. S. Wheeler, iron importer of New
Haven, Conn.,, has failed for $1,000, 000
Assets unknown.
Heavy floods in Dakota caused by
rains. Bridges are washed away and
trains delayed.
At Salem, Mass, Odelon Menard, his
wife and their babe were struck by
train on crossing and killed.
Crimes.
John I. Ross, colored. who murdered
Emily Brown, was hanged at Baltimore
at 1915 P. NJ. on the 9th.
Alfred Cope, general manager of Ehl-
bach & Co., Boston, New York and Phil
adelphia. is missing and is believed to
be defaulter.
At Broken Bow, Neb., on the 9th,
of numbering her husband and was SEN
fenced to rs years Imprisonment.
William B. Jones shot and killed his
wife at Dallas, Tex; jealousy.
At a Baptist revival in Oak Grove,
Wayne County, KY, a Mr.. Stapleton
tried to break up the services. George
Hancock tried to quiet him. An en-
counter followed in which Hancock ia
tally shot Stapleton.
District Assembly 40, knights of
Labor, New York, votes financial aid to
the Chicago Anarchists.
The BaldKnobber trial at Ozark, Mo-,
resulted in an acquittal.
John w. Connors, implicated in the
Minneapolis post-office robbery, has
been indicted at Winona, Mimi.
At Shelbyville, Ind, Sylvester Bassett
stabbed his brother Albert to death,
over the shoulder ofhis mother.
The circuit court decides that the Sun
day law applies to st. Louis and the sa-
loon men will take an appeal to the
United States court.
Maud Camston is dying at Minneapo-
lis from the effects of an assault commit
ted by an actor named Hal Reid, who
has disappeared.
Mintzki, the boy desperate of Mon
tana, charged with robbery and murder,
broke Jail at Brainerd, Mimi, and liber-
ated the other prisoners.
The superintendent of the Quincy,
KY, Sunday school, named James
Weeks, was shot dead when leaving the
by John Harris
J. E. Merwin, the express agent who |
robbed the Office at Glens Falls, N. Y,
Of $6, 600 on the Goth of August, has been
arrested at Henderson, N. c., and is on